The first phase of the Ukrop’s to MARTIN’S conversion was completed this morning as doors opened at the Short Pump, Virginia Center, Colonial Square, and Williamsburg stores. A few media folk were invited to stop by the Short Pump location and take a look around.

If you think that I am that type of person that has an arsenal of fish head recipes, you’re wrong. The more I cook and try and fail and succeed and ask questions, the more success I’ll have with fish heads. You will, too.

For someone who claimed never to have eaten tofu before, Nick Bates, manager of Halligan Bar & Grill certainly showed us all. After winning Café Gutenberg and Twin Oaks’s First Annual Tofu Eating Contest, I wonder now if it was all a ruse. He won $150 in gift certificates from Gutenberg and Ellwood Thompson.

FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY! Let the indulging begin! Now this list might look a little light, but you need to remember that the weekend’s are restaurants’ prime money-making time, so they don’t have to work as hard to bring people in. But there are at least a few spaces that will hook you up.

Thursday means it’s almost Friday which means it’s almost the weekend! Yay! Here are a few specials available at Richmond restaurants to help you celebrate the fact that the weekend is so close you can taste it.